THE THEME OF CULTURAL ADAPTATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND FILM Cases When the Discourse Changed

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1 THE THEME OF CULTURAL ADAPTATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND FILM Cases When the Discourse Changed Edited by Laurence Raw Tanfer Emin Tune Gulriz Biiken With a Foreword by Robert Stam The Edwin Mellen Press Lewiston'Queenston'Lampeter

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword, Robert Stam i Preface/Acknowledgements, Laurence Raw, Tanfer Emin Tune and Giilriz Biiken v Introduction, Laurence Raw and Tanfer Emin Tune 1 Section I: Fresh Perspectives on Film Adaptation Chapter One: In the Blink of a Martian Eye...Lights Out: American Horror, from Page to Airwaves to Screen Cynthia J. Miller 13 Chapter Two: "Let Me Rephrase That": Autoremakes in Hollywood MelisBehlil 25 Chapter Three: Spandex Cinema: Conceptual and Theoretical Methods in Adapting Comic Books to Film Benjamin Smith 45 Chapter Four: Comic Books on Screen: Frank Miller's and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City Berkem Gurenci Saglam 63

3 Chapter Five: Cryptomnesia or Cryptomancy? Subconscious Adaptations of 9/11 Anthony Metivier 73 Chapter Six: Bridges to a Green America: Green Romance Genres in Recent American Fiction and their Film Adaptations Jerry Rodnitzky 89 Section II: Fresh Perspectives on Literary Adaptation Chapter Seven: Do You Know Me Now?: Ring Lardner's Adaptation of an American Bildungsroman Scott Peterson 107 Chapter Eight: An Ecology of Transmutation: Ecocriticism and Adaptation in Octavia Butler's Dawn Andrew Plisner 123 Chapter Nine: Adapting to and in America: To Face a War, Faces in War as Rendered in Leslie M. Silko's Ceremony and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men Mary Farrell 143 Chapter Ten: Adapting Black (Women's) History to the Stage: Race, Gender and Resistance in Breena Clarke's and Glenda Dickerson's Re/Membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show Tanfer Emin Tune 159

4 Section III: Artistic Adaptations Chapter Eleven: Europe Adapted, Europe Challenged: Abstract Expressionism and Constructing American National Identity through Painting Justyna Wierzchowska 187 Chapter Twelve: What Lies Beneath: Jasper Johns' Flag ( ) as a Mirror for the Changing Face of Postwar Patriotism Annessa Ann Babic 205 Chapter Thirteen: A Return To The Context: Blues As Ethos Ozge Ozbek Akiman 217 Chapter Fourteen: Julie Taymor's Musicality Dennis Rothermel 231 Section IV: Ethnic/Racial Adaptations Chapter Fifteen: The Gadugi: How the Cherokees Preserved their Traditional Village Organization through Continuous Adaptation John K. Donaldson 261 Chapter Sixteen: A Contrastive View of American Racial Discourse and Identity: Constructs in Jean Toomer's Cane and Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Charkne Taylor Evans 277

5 Chapter Seventeen: West Indian Women's Cultural Adaptation of the American Diasporic Space Kamille Gentles-Peart 297 Chapter Eighteen: Indian Stories on the Silver Screen: Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Demet Satilmis 315 Section V: Cross-Cultural Adaptations Chapter Nineteen: Neepwaaminki/I am Learning: Education and Native Cultural Identity Nichole S. Prescott 329 Chapter Twenty: Adapting East to West: Amy Lowell as a Cultural Mediator Elisabetta Marino 345 Chapter Twenty-One: Perceptions'Of America: Pro- And Anti-Americanism in Turkish Novels, Comics, Movies, Songs And Newspapers ZaferParlak 359 Chapter Twenty-Two: Towards a Pedagogy for "Adapting America" in the Language Classroom Laurence Raw and Gonca Giiltekin 383 Chapter Twenty-Three: Adapting American Literature and Culture at (and Beyond) the End of Europe: A Tale of Two Moldovas James M. Welsh 403

6 Section VI: Historical and Political Adaptations Chapter Twenty-Four: An Inconvenient Founding Father: Adapting John Adams for Popular Culture Marianne Holdzkom 421 Chapter Twenty-Five: Aimee Semple McPherson: Adapting that "Old Time Religion" to Mainstream America Nancy Honicker 437 Chapter Twenty-Six: "A Deadly Combination With Which We... [Are] Only Too Familiar": Adapting Contemporary and Historical Discourses of Race in the Popular Literature of the Somalia Intervention David Kieran 451 Chapter Twenty-Seven: "Forget It, Jake": Adapting American History in Chinatown Mark Eaton 469 Chapter Twenty-Eight: War of the Worlds III: The Fall of the American Empire Angel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo 491 Filmography 510 Bibliography 521 Index 551